Nature's Grace - Inspiration

Nature's Grace - Inspirational Quotes

Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened.
Don't open the door to the study and begin reading.
Take down the dulcimer.
Let the beauty we love, be what we do.
There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
- Rumi

Serenity is not freedom from the storm
But peace within the storm

Love After Love
by Dennis Wallcott

The day will come
When with elation
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door in your own mirror
And each will smile at the other's welcome
Saying sit here, eat.

You will love again the stranger who was yourself.

Give wine, give bread
Give back your heart to itself
To the stranger who has loved you all your life,
whom you ignored for another,who knows you by heart.

Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,
the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit, feast on your life, feast on your life.

Wild Geese
by Mary Oliver

You do not have to be good
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.

Spiritual life should include a great measure
of common sense.
- From Buddha's Little Instruction Book by Jack Kornfield

To forgive is to stop being the victim.

We are of Earth, and belong to You.
Every step that we take upon You
should be done in a sacred manner;
each step should be as a prayer.
- Black Elk, Native American spiritual leader

Prayer is the state of the
heart which is always in the
Presence of God.

Seeing into one's own nature is not the fruit of study or research.
It is a profound insight derived from living in the heart of reality, in perfect mindfulness.
- Thich Nhat Hanh

Our chronic fascination with failure and disappointment makes it extremely difficult for us to enjoy the simple blessings of the moment. . . . When we anchor our awareness in the body, we are less able to talk ourselves out of a moment of lightness or joy. . . . Most of us are naturally compassionate, but for some of us, the wounds of childhood have suffocated our natural generosity toward ourselves and others. We often feel sad and troubled because we are unsure how to love, how to be helpful to ourselves and others, how to be most useful to the family of the earth. Our task is not to learn how to be loving; the love within us is already full and alive. Our practice is to melt the fear and armor that imprisons our hearts. Then our impulses to love and our inclinations to be generous and kind blossom easily and surely within us.
- Wayne Muller
- Legacy of the Heart

The opposite of arrogance is indeed humility -- but not the decadent humility of denying one's gifts and uniqueness. Rather, the healthy humility of remaining true and close to the earth and the things of the earth. Simple living. Simplicity is today's very accurate synonym for humility.
- Matthew Fox

A new heart also will I give you,
and a new spirit will I put within you:
and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh,
and I will give you an heart of flesh.
And I will put my spirit within you,
and cause you to walk in my statutes
and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them,
And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers:
and ye shall be my people,
and I will be your God.
- Ezekiel 36:26-28

And what does the Lord require of thee,
but to do justly, and to love mercy,
and to walk humbly with thy God.
- Micah 6:8

If I take the wings of the morning,
and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;
Even there shall thy hand lead me,
and thy right hand shall hold me.
- Psalm 139:9-10

For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice;
and the knowledge of God
more than burnt offerings.
- Hosea 6:6

Is not this the fast that I have chosen?
to loose the bands of wickedness,
to undo the heavy burdens,
and to let the oppressed go free,
and that ye break every yoke?
- Isaiah 58:6

Quote seen at the Ananda church:
Jesus said "My followers in the west do good works
but they have forgotten that I taught them to first seek the kingdom of God."

Another frightening thing about the soul
- it would much rather fail at its own life than succeed at someone else's life.
David Whyte

Our deepest fear
is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear
is that we are powerful beyond measure.
lt is our light, not our darkness that frightens us most.
We ask ourselves
who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and
fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small doesn't serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking
so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God within us.
lt is not just in some of us: it's in everyone.
And, as we let our own light shine, we
unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear,
our presence automatically liberates others.

Nelson Mandela, 1994 Inaugural Speech

Metta Meditation

May all beings be free from suffering
May all beings be peaceful
May all beings be happy
May all beings everywhere be free

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